Hello, everyone. Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. My name is Hank Smith. I am the host of a podcast called Follow Him. I'm here with my co-host, John, by the way. Hi, John.

Hi, Hank.

And we do a weekly little snippet called Follow Him Favorites, where we just take the lesson, the come follow me lesson this week and just pick out our favorites.

So, John, the lesson this week is in doctrine covenant sections 51 through 57. You only get to pick one because it's follow him favorite. Maybe follow him favorites if you're feeling, you know, if you're feeling like you got to do more than one, but go ahead and tell us what your follow him favorite is for this lesson.

Well, Hank, there's so many sections in here, but I had some that I actually marked as a teenager because my last name seems to be in in eight different verses in section 52.

And there are all these mission calls and it says let them preach by the way, verse 10, let them go to by two, let's let them preach by the way.

And then you go to the other page or you scroll down to verses 22, 23, 25, 26, and it all talks about preaching by the way. And I used to just think that was cool because it was kind of like my last name, the prepositional phrase.

The message is don't wait till you get to your mission field and then start preaching preach on the way preach by the way wherever you are, don't let your testimony be too hard to detect. And there may be chances all the time in normal and natural ways to say I love my church.

I'm so happy and you can preach by the way and I think I want to do that not only because my name is in here, but because what a great way to be that I'm a missionary all the time, not just waiting until I get some formal call, but I can preach the gospel by the way wherever happened to be going, I can preach by the way.

I love that it might today say like by the insta or by the Facebook right. By the text preach the gospel. Yeah, by the text. There's all there's all sorts of ways, not just by the way, but there's all sorts of ways for us to preach the gospel. I was looking for Smith in the doctrine.

It was hard to find though. There's not a whole lot of hanks, but there's a lot of Smiths. There's quite a few Smiths along the way. Imagine Hank. All right. So my following favorite is actually in the next section section 53. It's a very simple one where the Lord says I was crucified for the sins of the world.

So I'm going to give you a commandment. And what's that commandment for sake the world. And the idea for sake is give up. I did a talk a number of years ago called break up with the world and the idea is that you in the world have to make a break. Right. You've got to say, you know what? It's not me. It's you.

You are not good for me. Right. You have got it. Well, there's another one. It was like welcome to dumpsville population. You right. The idea is you've got to break up with the world. And I think the Lord wants us to the Lord is saying why?

Why are you why are you so why do you have one foot in Zion and the other foot in the world? Right. What do you think you're missing out on there? I want to give you I want to give you these blessings. I want to give you these experiences. But you got to, you know, standing in holy places takes two feet.

You got to get get over here on my side. So I always am thinking to myself personally, what is something what's probably the most worldly thing in my life that I could I could forsake and replace it with something more holy.

It could be music, could be television show, could be you know anything anything where you think you know what that's that's probably not in that's probably in the strength of Satan pamphlet I should probably get rid of that and replace it with something holy.

So I hope that you those listening can say, you know what I'm going to if the Lord was crucified for the sins of the world, I can I can sacrifice something something worldly for him and just keep doing it.

Just keep sacrificing those worldly things until you're you got both feet on the Lord's work.

All right, we hope that you will join us on our podcast. It's called follow him. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

But join us each week for our follow him favorites. We'll see you next time.